My paintings have been described as increments of time and marks in a meditative moment, where the kind of glow-time is infinite in both directions, outward in accumulated, immeasurable brush strokes and inward towards a glow point. Music exemplifies it best — retaining previous notes to understand the whole body of music, my painting does […]

Every tree holds a story, some hold memories and beliefs: Marcel Proust’s narrator fell into a ‘remembrance of things past’ after dropping his madeleine in the tea made from the flowers of a linden tree…each growth lawyer of il Ciliegio Magico contains a bit of the air from the land where I grew up: La […]

La 24 Ore (literally “24 Hours”) is a leather briefcase designed to hold only a day’s essentials. It embodies the process of memory itself, its limitations and demands for selection and compression: a house must  become a  small, portable case; years passed within its walls must become only moments of inward reflection, representing stages in a journey […]

Luce is a series of 12 oil paintings on Belgian linen housed in a leather case, inspired by a 7th century Coptic binding. The colors in the paintings and the bands correspond to the 12 divine Rays of Light, each one having a correspondence with a specific solar sign, or quality of consciousness. The Rays have attributes of […]

During my stay in a secluded cottage in Cornwall, I’d go out in the dark isolated landscape and paint fragments of the night. Once back in the studio, I cut into pieces old linen pillowcases, handed down by my grandmother to my mother and ultimately to me. Working with local embroiderers, I sewed the linen squares […]

Chy – Chi m (plural treven or chiow), noun house. Etymology from Proto-Brythonic *tɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.Pronunciation [tʃiː], [tʃəi] August 2015, Cape Cornwall U.K. “The process of enveloping an abandoned Cornish house nestled under a cliff beside the sea, used once by local miners, allowed me to reflect upon the perpetual principles of transformation and […]

I have been painting and drawing roots that take life in a magical way and become fantastical creatures, full of humanity. They look  vulnerable and strong and beautiful, with a wounded element that makes them unique. They are strange creatures that talk to my heart. They are not loud, they look at me quietly in […]